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Morley Town Hall, civic regalia

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October 1995. A special display cabinet bought at the end of Morley Council's life in order to show the civic regalia that would no longer have any official function. Here it is being used at the time Morley was celebrating the centenary of the Town Hall. Inside the cabinet are (roughly from left to right):- 1) An alderman's robe; 2) The mace in its lion stand (the bottom part hidden behind a card of explanation); 3) The trowel and mallet used by Thomas Clough in laying the memorial stone; 4) Visitors' book; 5) Mayor's and Mayoress' chains etc.; 6) Silver rose bowl for freedom of borough; &) Scroll from Siegen; 8) Granting of Morley's coat-of-arms; 9) Coins of the Realm. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive.